Software Engineer

ABOUT PANPRICES
Few people are aware of the fact that 8 out of 10 Swedes have tried shopping online from abroad, even though consumers today face many hurdles when shopping cross-border. This is one of the factors explaining why currently only 25% of the total e-commerce purchase volume stems from cross-border transactions. At Panprices, we aim to tackle this untapped market by creating a hybrid marketplace that enables consumers to discover products, compare prices, and buy what they are looking for up to 50% cheaper than in their local country.
Panprices is a funded startup initially incubated by Sting and Stockholm School of Economics Business Lab and now backed by some of Sweden’s largest private investors with experience as founders and/or early investors in Fyndiq, Tradera (acquired by eBay), Home24, Payson, and DoubleClick (acquired by Google).


WHO WE ARE
We are a strong founding team who between us have scaled startups to a combined value of over a quarter billion dollars. Tom Dickson was a founding team member of the Swedish consumer internet phenomenon Kivra. Don Truong previously co-founded an e-learning platform that he scaled to the top 4 globally in its segment. Nathalie Minder has a background in the music industry where she worked with some of the biggest artists of our time and helped them reach platinum-selling status. Panprices fourth co-founder and Chairman of the Board Magnus Agervald co-founded and sold Icomera, which reached a revenue of $50M and later served as the CEO of Byggmax, Ratos, and Webhallen.


WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
With Panprices having succeeded in the initial niche segment and secured funding, we are now looking for you - an exceptionally strong engineer - who will play a key role in designing and building out our product to reach the mass market. We think that you have at least 2 years of professional experience. During these years you have excelled in both the technical aspects of your career as well as having helped create a conducive environment for your fellow engineers to work in. You might also have built a workflow or two with a message broker. We believe that our main challenge ahead lies in the backend but we think your architectural skills are up for challenges on the frontend as well.

WHAT YOU WILL BE WORKING WITH
Once a consumer searches for a product in our React PWA we fan-out the query via our message broker on Google Cloud to our offer-fetching python services. The results are then enriched and presented to the client via the Firebase Realtime Database. The offers also get persisted in PostgreSQL where we store a number of other supporting data sets. The data in the Postgres database, as well as integrations to payment providers, are exposed to the client via an API written in Go.


You will join our engineering team and be expected to shortly after joining, lead our technical and architectural decision making. This is the perfect opportunity for an entrepreneurial candidate with the ambition to grow into the role of VP of Engineering/Chief Technology Officer.


WHAT WE OFFER
With Panprices being an early-stage startup, we offer you to play a key role in the development of our product and the opportunity to shape the company. You will be working in an ambitious, inclusive, and highly international team of people that value openness, initiative, and ridiculously bold ideas.